Changelog

v 8.3.1

8 December 2018

• Tweaks to random phoneme inventory algorithm to bring it more in line with real world probabilities: made ʃ, tʃ, ts and nasal vowels less frequent; made aspirated consonants more frequent
• Choosing a partial phoneme inventory (using Add random phonemes to the custom selection) now attempts to obey phonological language universals. More work will be done on this in future updates
• Fixed derivational morphology causing some garbled text in dictionary and some crashing issues
• Fixed randomly generated derivational morphology not generating ELSE conditions
• Fixed compound words not working
• Fixed mid-word diacritics not appearing
• Fixed shorthand V symbol not matching diphthongs in certain scenarios
• Fixed diacritic some placement. Some diacritic buttons now populate above or to the side of phonemes with descenders: eg but m̥ vs ŋ̊, and b̟ vs β˖ (Note: only some IPA diacritics have officially approved alternate Unicode characters for descenders)
• Make same vowel twice in a row illegal no longer shows you the rules explicitly, but just silently applies them at generation time. This means the rules will apply even if you let the generator decide what vowels to use. The new algorithm also solves a design flaw where diphthongs actually need the diphthong diacritic symbol for them to be matched as illegal (Vulgar adds the diphthong symbol to user entered diphthongs so that the syllable stress algorithm doesn't treat diphthong as two separate syllables, then deletes unless the you uncheck Remove diphthong and affricate diacritics. Thus, if you need to enter any rules that involve diphthongs, be sure to add this symbol.)
• Added diphthong diacritic button to aid with above issue. Also added "more round" and "less round" buttons, and removed some of non-standard diacritics (although they can still be used by copy-pasting)
• Fixed some non-diphthongs being listed as diphtohngs
• Fixed rare issue where custom added words were assigned wrong meaning

v 8.3

11 November 2018

• Created new system for doing derivational morphology. This is capable of doing circumfixes, complex sound changes, and can also apply affixes based on conditions, such as whether a words begins or ends in a vowel or consonant. See new guide here.
• New algorithm for randomly choosing the phoneme inventory which obeys phonological "universals" more closely
• Naturalistic phoneme frequency is now default setting
• Added ability to specify the Language name and Anglicised name• Added Arrange in naturalistic ranking option, which automatically arranges your phonemes from most common to least common, based on real-world data. This is to be used with the naturalistic distribution setting to simulate a probable spread of phonemes that you would expect to see in real languages. The randomness factor accounts for the fact that not all languages will rank every phoneme in the same frequency, just that there are tenancies for certain phonemes to be more common.
• Having naturalistic phoneme frequencies checked when using Phonotactic analyser will order phonemes by frequency
• Added support for negative lookbehinds in Chrome
• Fixed RegEx lookbehinds being rejected as invalid in Firefox and Safari
• Fixed issue where round brackets inside lookbehind patterns were not matching properly
• Fixed phonological rule issue with brackets before the underscore
• Fixed RegEx phonological rules not being listed with standard phonological notation rules in grammar section
• Fixed articles not populating to dictionary in some scenarios
• Fixed articles and pronouns still populating to the dictionary when Remove default word list is checked
• Fixed cursor moving to front of input fields when selecting phonemes on mobile browsers and Safari desktop. However, now you can only add phonemes/diacritics to the very end of the line on these browsers. Recommend using Chrome on desktop devices, where possible.
• Fixed issue where adding the same English word twice in Add More Words field caused other custom words to be assigned to wrong conlang word
• Fixed dental column in consonant chart being in the wrong position
• Fixed tab character causing settings file to become corrupted
• Finnish and Turkish buttons now populate correct vowel harmony
• One Who Xs affix changed from -ER to -DOER

v 8.2

12 October 2018

• Added secondary stress symbols and ability to create advanced stress patterns
• Added Naturalistic phoneme frequency option, which ranks phonemes from left (most frequent) to right (least frequent) and calculated frequencies based on a Yule distribution, which mimics ranked distribution of phonemes in real languages.
• Added support for syllabic consonants (must be used in vowel fields because the program analyses them as the syllable nucleus)
• Added word wrapping for phoneme input boxes and ability to expand the input area. Phonemes and illegal combinations may now optionally be separated by new lines.
• Improvements to phonological rule notation: added support for more shorthand symbols (see new guide here) and fixed shorthand symbols not capturing diacritics.
• Changed affricates to be the single Unicode character versions by default (ʧ, ʤ, ʦ, ʣ, ʨ and ʥ) instead of double characters (tʃ, dʒ, ts, dz, etc) to circumvent some issues with Advanced Word Structure thinking affricates are two separate phonemes. Double characters can still be used in Advanced Word Structure but you must use the affricate tie-bar between them. Also added affricate tie-bar to diacritic buttons.
• Fixed syllable boundary symbol (%) not applying to beginnings and ends of words
• Fixed a bug that caused pronouns and articles to sometimes have incorrect word structure
• Fixed settings file not saving various checkboxes and PDF settings
• Fixed diphthong symbol (ia̯) not appearing in cases where diphthong has other diacritics
• Fixed triphthongs being truncated and interpreted as diphthongs
• Fixed Tumblr Dictionary Theme not working for full version only
• Fixed issues with Tumblr Dictionary Theme's custom HT​ML formatting tags

v 8.1.1

v 8.1

8 September 2018

• Added Vowel harmony to Advanced Word Structure
• Added support for more IPA diacritics: geminate (long) symbol for consonants, laminal, extra short symbol for vowels, more rounded less rounded symbols for vowels, voiceless symbols that goes above the IPA letter, voiced symbol for consonants
• Syllable boundary can now be represented in phonological rules using % symbol
• Added Hebrew to Advanced Word Structure
• Fixed Illegal combinations not applying to affixes, pronouns, articles and particles. Additionally, illegal combinations can match on affix boundaries using ‘-’. Example: you don't want suffixes to be able to start with /a/, write -a as an illegal rule.
• Fixed semi-vowels (j, w, ɥ, ɰ) being interpreted as consonants only. They can now be used in diphthongs in vowel input fields
• Improvements to HT​ML output: now sorts English to Conlang. Also added style sheet to make it look like the online site.
• Removed words from having two part of speech separated by a semi-colon. Eg: v. laugh; n. laugh, as this was causing issues for users trying to overwrite either of the words
• Removed other various double-up English words
• Vulgar now alerts you if your RegEx/phonological rules are invalid
• Fixed compound word syntax not allowing white space before and after + and & symbols
• More changes to LaTeX formatting: it is now easier to upload a conlang font by having different font styles for English-to-Conlang entry, English-to-Conlang definition, Conlang-to-English entry and Conlang-to-English definition
• Very minor improvements to translator: typing the exact wording of articles as they appear in the dictionary will translate them. Example: if it's in the dictionary as "the (n. nominative)" you can type that and it will translate, where previously it would fail to find it.
• Modify this language button auto-populates the seed number for last language generated; Generate new language now automatically clears the seed number field; and Using custom seed number uses whatever seed was manually entered to seed field. Also added these buttons to the bottom of the settings.
• Fixed custom spelling helper not removing multiplication numbers from end of vowels
• Fixed grammar tables using wrong word for ‘man’
• Fixed issues with Phonotactic Analyser failing to include some mid-word consonants

v 8.0

28 July 2018

• Launched the new online platform of Vuglar
• Tumblr Dictionary Theme builder now comes with Full and Pro version
• Added Change alphabet order• Added CSV export
• Added ability to download PDF output as .tex file
• Changes made to LaTeX code to make it less bloated
• Added option to download HT​ML as a file
• Added Make illegal combinations sensitive to stress symbol• Illegal combinations now works with Custom Phonemes instead of just Advanced Word Structure• Added ability to control phoneme frequencies by adding a number immediately after the phoneme/consonant cluster
• Added Hawaiian to Advanced Word Structure
• Changes made to saved settings file to be more forwards-compatible with future versions of Vulgar
• Fixed some settings not saving to settings file: Articles and Make phonological rules sensitive to stress symbol
• Fixed Add More Words causing the conjugation rules to change, all other settings and seed number being the same
• Fixed some crashing issues with Phonological Rules field
• Fixed Make same vowel twice in a row illegal not properly deduplicating rules in some scenarios

v 7.4

7 May 2018

• Added ability to specify what the derivational affixes are (the conlang part)
• Changed some of the format for Add more words. Info on new format here• Added Make spelling rules sensitive to stress symbol and Make phonological rules sensitive to stress symbol• Added ability to use RegEx in Phonological rules section
• Added shortcut buttons to easily populate your phonemes into Custom Spelling rules
• Added Spelling diacritic helper buttons for the following diacritics
• IPA buttons populate to mouse position, instead of end of line
• Typing a colon automatically gets converted to vowel length symbol upon generation
• Fixed Second Orthography causing spinning wheel of death
• Fixed RegEx Lookbehind syntax not working
• Fixed No Fixed Stress option re-randomising the stress location in the narrow IPA
• Fixed Add custom words not de-duplicating words already in the default dictionary
• Fixed custom derived words duplicating after every new generation
• Fixed various bugs that caused 'undefined' to sometimes appear in output
• Choosing phonological rules with a seed number no longer produces an entirely different language
• Re-added ability to put voiceless diacritic symbols on vowels after fixing a bug where voiceless symbol attached itself to the stress symbol
• Fixed ä not appearing in output
• Fixed vowels ɞ and ɶ not appearing in evolved languages
• Fixed seed number not following through to evolved languages
• Fixes to IPA symbols in Manuale font: ʁ being designed wrong (glyph was mirror imaged) and fixes to positioning of various diacritic symbols
• Added ʊ to English phonology

v 7.3.2

16 April 2018

• Add more words overrides the randomly generated word when you specify what the conlang side of the word is (where previously it would create two entries for the one word)
• Seed number system changed to circumvent bug where the alphanumeric seed would sometimes produce different results within the same version
• Clicking seed number populates it to the settings
• Altering the spelling rules no longer changes the whole language (provided all other settings are the same)
• Added option to make PDF output 3 or 2 columns
• In PDF output, new sections page-break if there is not much space left at the end of the page
• In PDF output, entries with multiple parts-of-speech are semi-colon separated
• Fixed bug that caused scrambled code to be added to PDF output and Tumblr Dictionary theme
• Fixed phoneme /ɶ/ not appearing in final output and Phonotactic Analyser
• Fixed phoneme /ʍ/ not appearing in consonant table
• Fixed some contour tone buttons giving wrong contours
• Clicking Make same vowel twice in a row illegal twice does not add the rules twice

v 7.3.1

7 April 2018

• Added ability to save and load settings to .txt files
• Added Make same vowel twice in a row illegal, which auto-populates illegal rules to stop two of the same vowel in a row
• Custom affixes get spelled out in grammar section
• Added Latin and Dothraki as an option for the Advanced Word Structure. Also made changes to some of the existing languages to remove allophones and/or regional dialects
• Added extended IPA support for Manuale font
• Fixed /ɞ/ and ejective symbols not appearing in final output
• Fixed occasional crashing issue with entering non-IPA symbols into phoneme fields
• Disabled ability to add IPA diacritics to don't connect to any main IPA symbol
• Fixed issue where custom spelling rules were not be able to find and replace diphthong and affricate diacritics
• Fixed crashing issue with seed numbers
• Fixed issue that caused PDF output to not render in some scenarios
• Fixed issue that caused Add randomly chosen phonemes to the custom selection option to not appear
• Click symbols to add section now re-focuses on the phoneme field after populating an IPA symbol into it
• Fixed vowel table alignment

v 7.3

21 February 2018

• Font changed from Charis SIL to Noto Serif and Manuale• Added ability to specify what the English word will translate to in Add more words option• Added Shorten average word length feature
• Added hover effect on word entries
• Fixed bug that caused seed number to sometimes produce different results, even when all custom settings were correct
• Disabled ability to manually enter seed numbers that are over 12 characters (this caused crashes)
• Illegal combinations rules can now be separated with a space or comma + space
• Fixed issue with semi-colons in Add new words field causing PDF output to not render
• Fixed Remove default word list causing crashes in some scenarios
• Minor bug fixes to Analyse word structure of your own language• Disabled Add randomly chosen phonemes to the custom selection option from appearing when choosing Advanced Word Structure (this feature only applies to "Custom Phoneme" settings)

v 7.2.1

27 January 2018

• Redesigned code that applies phonological rules to fix various instances of rules not applying correctly
• Add more words de-duplicates words that were already in the default list (provided you use the exact same part-of-speech tag)
• HT​ML output sorts English to Conlang. The is output also a bit more readable, and includes a basic internal style sheet.
• Create daughter language button named changed to be called "Evolve language"
• Added jump to orthography link in the Evolve section
• Fixed bug where articles sometimes had mid-word consonant clusters at the beginning or end of the word
• Fixes to the LaTeX code when using Second Orthography option (removed HT​ML tags around the second orthography, primary and secondary orthography are now separated by a comma)
• Various minor bug fixes to Analyse word structure of your own language• Fixed "undefined" appearing before some part-of-speech markers after Evolving the language

v 7.0

27 September 2017

• Added Editable PDF function
• Outputs information on how articles ('the' and 'a') are used differently to English
• Added ALT + L shorrcut to generate new language
• Illegal combinations now supports RegEx
• Fixed Illegal combinations feature being applied to orthography as well as phonology. Now only applies to phonology
• Remove default word list no longer forces example words used in grammar section (i.e. "study") to the dictionary
• Using Add more words with seed no longer alters the language (provided all other custom settings are the same)
• Fixed verb to adjective (v>adj) derivation rule not working
• Fixed phoneme /dʒ/ sometimes not showing up in orthography
• Fixed Tumblr dictionary JSON file causing errors where more than two words have the same spelling
• Removed some duplicate dictionary words
• Faster generation time on average